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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 345016, member: 360"]I've only scrapped silver maybe once in my life. I had a whole heap of useless silver lying around which I knew nobody was ever going to buy. So I hauled it all off to the scrapper to get rid of it. Among the scrap were two silver weighted candlesticks. </p><p><br /></p><p>It said "CEMENT FILLED" on the base. With the aide of a hammer and tongs, we smashed them open and the silver rolled off like tin-foil. What was underneath was actually some sort of brown, toffee-coloured stuff, like they'd been filled with butterscotch or something. The lady who did the scrapping had never seen it before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 345016, member: 360"]I've only scrapped silver maybe once in my life. I had a whole heap of useless silver lying around which I knew nobody was ever going to buy. So I hauled it all off to the scrapper to get rid of it. Among the scrap were two silver weighted candlesticks. It said "CEMENT FILLED" on the base. With the aide of a hammer and tongs, we smashed them open and the silver rolled off like tin-foil. What was underneath was actually some sort of brown, toffee-coloured stuff, like they'd been filled with butterscotch or something. The lady who did the scrapping had never seen it before.[/QUOTE]
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